Presentations

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Grote-Garcia, S., Ortlieb, E., & Panozzo, M. (2025). Supporting Readers and Literacy Leaders: Key Insights from the 2025 What’s Hot in Literacy Survey [session presentation]. ALER. Oklahoma City, OK.

Kuehl, R., Eppley, K., & Panozzo, M. ( 2025) Turns Out, We Really Are Everywhere:  A Queer Critical Content Analysis of Rural Books for Middle Grade Readers. [session presentation]. AERA. Denver, CO.

Eppley, K., Panozzo, M., & Kuehl, R. (2025). Queer Rural Representation in Middle Grade Fiction.  [virtual session presentation]. Children’s Literature Assembly Online Research Conference.

Kuehl, R., Eppley, K., & Panozzo, M (2024). Queer and Rural Intersections in Contemporary Middle Grade Novels. [session presentation]. NCTE. Boston, MA. 

Eppley, K., & Panozzo, M. (2024) Will and Tony are lucky: Queer rural lives in middle grade fiction.  [research session]. National Forum to Advance Rural Education, NREA. Savannah, GA.

Panozzo, M. (2024). Returning Home: How Studying LGBTQ Children’s and Young Adult Texts Helped Me Reclaim my Childhood. [paper]. ChLA. Madision, WI.

Panozzo, M. (2024). Using Art-Based Research to Re-Examine my Past and Imagine the Future as a Gay Educator. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. [paper]. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Panozzo, M. (2024). Linking Through Literacy: Exploring Children and Young Adult Literature to Build Community. [session presentation]. Texas Association for Literacy Education. Waco, TX. 

LaRue, L., & Panozzo, M. (2024). Balancing Bytes and Books: Exploring Digital and Printed Texts in the Classroom. [session presentation]. Texas Association for Literacy Education. Waco, TX. 

Panozzo, M. (2023). Caught Between Closets: Determining How Arts-Based Educational Research can promote the Understanding of Queer Educators' Lived Experiences. [roundtable]. Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers Annual Conference. Santa Fe, NM.

Panozzo, M., & Hockless, J. (2023). Exploring new worlds of storytelling through Makey Makey kits [session presentation]. Texas Association for Literacy Education. Houston, TX. 

Panozzo, M. (2022). ’We don’t talk about that’: Using Children’s and YA Lit to Promote the Inclusion of LGBTQ+ Persons in School [session presentation]. Texas Association for Literacy Education. Plano, TX. 

Panozzo, M. (2019). Queering Conversation of the ‘Other’ with Preservice Teachers Through Children and YA Texts[session presentation]. International Literacy Association Conference New Orleans, LA. 

Panozzo, M. (2019). Taboo Topics: Using Literature to Help Teachers and Students Understand the ‘Other’[session presentation]. Texas Association for Literacy Education. Waco, TX.

Panozzo, M. (2018). Opening the Closet of Your Classroom Library: Integrating YA Novels with LGBT Themes and Characters to Create a More Inclusive Classroom. [session presentation] Texas Association for Literacy Education. University. Canyon, TX